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- What are public and industry attitudes to reducing maritime emissions? What factors influence industry decision making on whether to reduce maritime emissions?
- How can we best model and understand the impacts on a global level of environmental policy actions?
- What skills are needed to implement improvements in creative industries environmental impact and to meet Net Zero targets? What are the best mechanisms for developing these skills in the workforce?
- What are the real-world pollutant emissions of road vehicles, including non-exhaust emissions, and what are the technologies that can be used to reduce them?
- What are the health impacts from aviation environmental emissions (e.g., noise and air quality)?
- What are the options and new technologies to detect and improve enforcement against vehicles with high noise emissions?
- In Shanghai, China, industrial contamination is very severe and periodic insulator washing is performed not only in substations but also on transmission lines.
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are widespread environmental contaminants of human health concern because of their carcinogenicity.
- Oil spills have caused significant environmental problems, placing the requirement of efficient and low-cost materials for the decontamination and cleanup.
- Plastic waste is one of the major environmental concerns.
- With the increase of construction solid waste (CSW) in China's urbanization construction, many ecological and environmental problems have been raised.
- The amount of industrial waste generated and the overexploitation of quarries worldwide are becoming one of the serious environmental problem.
- Excessive phosphorus in water is the primary culprit for eutrophication, which causes approximately $2.
- Water contamination from industrial and anthropogenic activities is nowadays a major issue in many countries worldwide.
- Fuels combustion, polluting the atmosphere is a side effect of an engines' work.
- Noise can cause a few types of effect to human health especially in hearing like hearing loss.
- The environmental performance of consumer products is a major concern for many companies.
- The growing amount of waste rubber produced from used tires has resulted in an environmental problem.
- Milk adulteration is a global concern.
- Wooden structures pollute the environment considerably less than the structures made of bricks, glass or concrete.
- Environmental pollutions, especially those caused by the electromagnetic radiations, are considered one of the most challenging issues facing today's world.
- Among the industrial solids residues of galvanic wastes have been paid special attention justified by their compositional characteristics that constitute a source of environmental contamination due their high heavy metals content.
- To mitigate the potential environmental pollution of discarded tires and waste carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), the present study investigates the feasibility of collaborative use of these recycled materials, which is called recycled CFRP fiber reinforced rubberized concrete (RFRRC).
- In recent decades, highly efficient deep desulfurization processes have become very necessary to decrease environmental pollution due to sulfur emissions from fuels.
- With the increasing applications of metal-based nanoparticles in various commercial products, it is necessary to address their environmental fate and potential toxicity.
- From the perspective of basic human health, arsenic is extremely toxic and highly lethal, which will enter surface water and groundwater through industrial production and eventually enter human beings through the food chain, causing immeasurable harm.
- Environmental pollution caused by pesticides and ultra-trace amounts of inorganic ions in the different environmental samples has become an issue of serious concern in the last years.
- Coal waste is the largest industrial solid waste generated from coal preparation plants during the processing and cleaning of coal for electric power generation.
- How can we monitor emissions arising as a result of digital consumption?
- What are the interdependencies between addressing different environmental impacts (e.g., CO2 and noise)?
- What are the most appropriate methodologies and indicators to measure the environmental and economic benefits of deploying and maintaining repair and maintenance systems when protecting cultural assets? What are the benefits of this?
- What environmental and logistical improvements, including those related to road freight emissions, urban air quality and congestion, could we expect to see if the planning approval decision making process were more technocratic and gave more weight to wider improvements?
- What evidence exists about the role of transport related air pollution (NOx and PM2.5) and social inequality in England, with consideration for social, economic, and geographic factors?
- What are the biggest environmental risks impacting on the educational system and student outcomes, and how can they be mitigated?
- What is the role of roadway design and traffic management on local PM2.5 concentrations?
- What new environmental techniques should be utilised in the analysis of road schemes that are not currently set out in Transport Analysis Guidance?
- How much ground-level ozone does transport produce from electric vehicle motors, pantographs and other electrical devices which can generate arcs (electrical discharges in air)?
- What are the specific health impacts of transport related particulate matter such as that caused by tyre and brake wear? Do different types of particulate pose different risks?
- How can standard methodologies on measuring greenhouse gas emissions be applied to AHT sectors? What kinds of new sustainability techniques and measures need to be developed specifically for AHT sectors?
- How can standard methodologies measuring greenhouse gas emissions be applied to the creative industries and its sub-sectors? Which, if any, aspects of standard emissions measurement needs to be adjusted to creative industries activities while ensuring consistency and cross sector comparisons?
- What are the impacts on nitrogen oxides of using hydrogen in internal combustion engines? Can they be mitigated? Are there any other emissions of concern?
- How are the local environmental impacts of aviation evolving through time (e.g., noise and air quality) and how can they best be mitigated?
- What will be the environmental impact of the copper switch-off and recovery of copper wiring? This includes the emissions used to recover the copper wiring, and the emissions savings from reduced need to mine and refine copper?
- What are the most effective and equitable transport related actions that can be taken to reduce emissions of (and exposure to) transport related air pollution (from particulates and NOx) in vulnerable communities, while helping growth, access to jobs and accessibility in more deprived areas?